Neither political,
constitutional, and economic events, nor sociological, philosophical and literary
movements can be fully understood without taking into account the influence which the
printing press has exerted upon them.There
are the words written by Steinberg in his book Five Hundred Years of Printing?

First
Photocomposing machine with matrices, also Linotype, London patented aFilm Matrix machine

1925

Edward Uher
constructed a typical photo composing machine, fully developed but could not be marketed due to complexity in working and high
costs.

1929-1945

Various
Photocomposing units developed by Hunter, Hubner, Westover and Elliot.

1949

First Lumitype
in New York

1954

Linofilm by
Linotype

1954

First
machine coated paper by MD paper mills, Germany

1967

Improved
variety of double-sided coating

1984

Desk Top
Publishing

As the saying goes, rest
is history again.Electronics and Laser
have changed the face of printing.We have
come a long way from Gutenberg.But still we
have a long way to go fighting for existence with electronic media. The hope is as
expressed by many, both will complement each other.